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    • Monash Peforming Arts Centres: Alinta and the Jazz Emperors

    The Count's 48 Exhibition Walk, Clayton, VIC
    Alinta and the Jazz Emperors make their debut at The Count’s with a night of joyful, soul-charged jazz, irresistible rhythm, and world-class musicianship. Presiding over a kingdom of feel-good swing and fiery improvisation, this powerhouse five-piece brings together some of Australia’s most accomplished jazz artists. Fronted by the magnetic Alinta…

    Monash Peforming Arts Centres: Ultrafox feat Georgia Brookes

    The Count's 48 Exhibition Walk, Clayton, VIC
    Ultrafox presents hot swinging jazz, tender lyrical ballads, French melodies and gypsy waltzes. Joined by the remarkable Georgia Brookes on vocals, this show is pre-war Paris–inspired jazz at its finest. Formed over 15 years ago by guitarist Peter Baylor, Ultrafox has earned a reputation as one of Australia’s premier swing…

    Monash Peforming Arts Centres: Lighting the Dark

    Alexander Theatre, The Ian Potter Centre for Performing Arts 48 Exhibition Walk, Clayton, VIC, Australia
    A journey to the very centre of what it means to be human, inspired by the legendary figures Banksy, David Bowie and Freddie Mercury. Lighting the Dark is a bold new work by Chris Dyke, a Kaurna (Adelaide) based dancer and choreographer living with Down syndrome. With the mesmerising Dancenorth…

    • Monash Peforming Arts Centres: Yael Zamir Quintet – A Serenade To Roland Kirk

    The Count's 48 Exhibition Walk, Clayton, VIC
    The Yael Zamir Quintet presents an evening celebrating Roland Kirk’s extraordinary contributions to jazz flute and multi-instrumentalism. Award-winning jazz flutist Yael Zamir is known for her expressive improvisation and distinctive sound. After studying classical flute, Yael completed a Bachelor of Music at Monash University, specialising in jazz flute performance. She…

    Monash Peforming Arts Centres: Fabulous Diva – The Music Of Dr Nina Simone

    The Count's 48 Exhibition Walk, Clayton, VIC
    Ruth Rogers-Wright evokes the spirit of Nina Simone in a concert featuring original music, poetry and storytelling. Her smouldering vocals inject Simone’s music with soul, accompanied by a stellar trio featuring jazz pianist Mark Fitzgibbon and Craig Fermanis on electric guitar. Ruth Rogers-Wright is a singer/songwriter originally from Brixton, London…

    Monash Peforming Arts Centres: Nat Bartsch

    The Count's 48 Exhibition Walk, Clayton, VIC
    ARIA-nominated Nat Bartsch makes her Count’s debut with her searing jazz quartet. Nat Bartsch is a critically acclaimed, multi-award-winning jazz and classical pianist and composer. Her meditative, lyrical music defies the conventions of genre and deeply resonates, often in profoundly personal moments. Nat's quartet brings this music to life with…

    Monash Peforming Arts Centres: Mina Yu

    The Count's 48 Exhibition Walk, Clayton, VIC
    Experience the brilliance of Mina Yu, a pianist and composer whose performances captivate with elegance, sensitivity and lyrical beauty. Based in Melbourne after seven years in NYC, Mina has built a reputation as a top-tier pianist and educator. Over the last three years, she has appeared on a number of…

    Monash Peforming Arts Centres: Crumb’s Lyre

    The Ian Potter Centre for Performing Arts 48 Exhibition Walk, Clayton, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
    Renowned pianist Sonya Lifschitz and vocalist and performance artist Christine Johnston come together for a bold reinterpretation of George Crumb’s Makrokosmos, Book 1. Blending recital, cabaret and performance art, this critically acclaimed work places Crumb’s zodiac inspired pieces within an imaginative Antipodean sound world. As Lifschitz conjures extraordinary sounds from…

    • Monash Peforming Arts Centres: Koi Kingdom

    The Count's 48 Exhibition Walk, Clayton, VIC
    As established composers, improvisers, and bandleaders, each member brings a distinct voice to the group’s bold, genre-defying sound. Their latest album was a collaboratively written, concept driven album, structured around a narrative based in the Koi world, or rather, ‘Koi Kingdom’ and was awarded the 2025 APRA/AMCOS Art Music Award…

    • Monash Peforming Arts Centres: Cave Song

    The Ian Potter Centre for Performing Arts 48 Exhibition Walk, Clayton, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
    Experience the immersive sound world of Cave Song, a new musical work by Karen Berger, Kate Neal and Anthony Lyons that journeys into the mysterious realms of caves, myth and deep time. Combining live and recorded voices, original texts and rare instruments including contraforte bassoon, Buchla synthesiser and resonant stalactites,…